high stud wall load bearing

Hello folks, Like your thoughts on shed I'm building. The shed is rectangular 8.1 x 7.2 metres with a few rooms and with a gable roof ridge line close to centre on the 7.2 metre axis. I can put a 7.2 m wide internal stud wall directly under ridge line but it would be high.. about 4.0 m high. That stud wall would have 2 walls perpendicular to it (partition walls of adjacent rooms) to give lateral support. I am planning to put in ceiling at 2.6m high so not a cathedral ceiling. There are other walls parallel to the centre high stud wall, 2 external and a third internal which will share roof load. My questions: Should I build all stud walls at 2.6m high to begin with and then put in ceiling joists and then separately construct the gable roof? Or should I build the high stud wall up to top of 4.0 m ridge to give direct support to rafters? This latter method would require running ceiling joists through the central stud wall (and another internal wall) on something like an intermediate plate support (probably doubled up) ? Should stud walls this high have doubled up studs of 90x45 at 450 centres? Thanks for your help, Franz


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